Chapter 1684
Chapter 1684
Chapter 1684
But Qiu Yuan probably didn't expect that the needs of the Spaniards were not just survival, food and shelter.After solving the most basic survival needs, little Francis proposed to the guards that he hoped to get in touch with his family and at least let him report that the family was safe.
Of course, the family Francis said was not his father who is still under house arrest with him, but his wife Ding Pinger and the old man's family.Since he was arrested, he has not received any news about his family. Of course, he has always been concerned about the family situation, but his wife's family is of Han origin, so he will not be persecuted by the Haihan government.
However, little Francis did not want to believe the conjecture that the father-in-law's family must be trying to separate themselves from them. He believed that his wife's family would not be so ruthless, and would still try to rescue his father and son, but probably couldn't. It's just to get through Haihan's joints.Of course, he still vaguely thought in his heart that people have the nature of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages. If the Ding family does not want to be dragged down by their father and son, it is actually understandable behavior to deliberately keep a distance or even draw a clear line.
But the guard did not dare to agree to little Francis' request at will. Although Qiu Yuan told him to meet the father and son's request as much as possible, he never said that he would allow the father and son to get in touch with the outside world.If any sensitive news gets out, who can take the responsibility?The guards could only record Little Francis' request first, and then submit it when reporting back on the work, and then put it into practice after the temporary management committee gave instructions.
This is the standard procedure for dealing with prisoners of war, and there is nothing wrong with the way the guards do it. It's just that in this way, the period of intrigue with the Ding and Qin families happened to be missed. Probably, he was not so eager to inquire about the news, and was in a hurry to separate himself from Francis and his son.
The choices made by the old man of the Ding family and the second child of the Qin family are difficult to define as right or wrong. They just stood at their own standpoints and made the choice that is most beneficial to them—at least in their own opinion.Ding Feng wanted to get rid of the relationship as soon as possible so that the Ding family would not be implicated by the Spaniards, while Qin Huacheng wanted to take advantage of the Ding family and take a huge sum of money from him. The two parties could reach a cooperation agreement because it was all because of interests. .
But the target of their cooperation, Francis Jr., was completely ignorant of this. For him, since his father had already negotiated with the Haihan people, he should be released soon, and he could be a small official locally in the next two or three years. Even if it's just a puppet acting for the Haihan people, at least it can maintain a stable life for this period of time.After the term of office expires, even if you don't return to China, it shouldn't be too difficult to find another place to stay in the Far East.
As for the feelings of the Ding family, little Francis has not been able to completely change his mentality for a while, and think too much for them. After all, not long ago, the Ding family was just attached to his relatives.Since the marriage of the two families, only the Ding family has ever come to ask for help from their own family. Little Francis basically does not need to consider the Ding family's ideas.Because of this, after the accident, he still insisted that the Ding family would try to rescue his father and son. Subconsciously, he still regarded himself as the backer of the Ding family, but did not realize that he might have become a burden to the Ding family.
In this regard, it is not 01:30 that Francis Jr. is worse than his father in terms of capital and knowledge, but Francis does not intend to criticize his son's thoughts. After all, people always need a little hope to survive in a desperate situation. Since the son If he thinks that someone outside will rescue him, let him think so, it can be regarded as a thought.
However, the idea of playing with little Francis outside is not necessarily to save him. For example, Qin Huacheng, the second son of the Qin family, is still thinking about how to find out the exact location of little Francis and how to get close to him. , exchange information with it, or simply kill it.
At first, Qin Huacheng really wanted to cheat the Ding family's money for establishing relationships, so he quickly stopped doing it, but he soon realized that he thought things a little too simply, and the Ding family didn't plan to pay them all at once. Instead of giving him a huge sum of money, he should use the results of the action as a reference to pay him in installments.In this way, Qin Huacheng couldn't make the money lying down as he had imagined.But he didn't expect the meat in the bowl to fly away again, so he took the initiative to collect information, hoping to get more dry goods that the Ding family would willingly pay for.
I have to say that Qin Huacheng was very lucky. After he invited friends from all walks of life for a few days, someone finally revealed to him a seemingly irrelevant, but interesting news after careful consideration.
The person who gave Qin Huacheng the news was named Jin Bo, who was a friend of Qin Huacheng's since childhood. Although he had a Han Chinese name, half of his blood was actually from the natives of Luzon Island.However, Jin Bo grew up in the circle of Han people, so he is very proficient in Chinese and Chinese characters. Except for his dark complexion, he looks no different from ordinary Han people.
Similar to Qin Huacheng's situation, Jin Bo was also a group of locals who took advantage of the situation after the war and was recruited by the military into the logistics department as a clerk who counted the spoils of war and registered the situation of prisoners of war.If nothing else happens, he will soon be able to obtain Haihan military membership as a civilian soldier. Not only will he be able to obtain land in the northern plains of Manila Bay, but it is also said that he can apply for Haihan nationality earlier than ordinary people.For Jin Bo, who was born as a commoner, this is undoubtedly an opportunity to leap into the dragon's gate.
However, Jin Bo came across a piece of news in his work a few days ago. It happened that Qin Huacheng was desperately inquiring about things related to Spanish prisoners of war in the past two days. Qin Huacheng was informed of the news.
"You said that the Haihan people want to set up a government office for the Spaniards to be officials? Interesting!" Qin Huacheng didn't understand what Jin Bo said at first, but simply thought that this sounded incredible.The Haihan people managed to drive away the original rulers here by means of war, but why did they invite the Spaniards back to serve as officials? Could it be that there is no one in Haihan?
Jin Bo saw that he didn't understand what he said, shook his head and explained: "You don't understand, this yamen is not ordinary, it is specially used to manage the local Spaniards."
"Using barbarians to control barbarians?" Qin Huacheng frowned, as if he had understood the special meaning in the middle: "This is looking for puppets...The officials appointed by the Haihan people may not be ordinary civilians, right?"
This time Jin Bo nodded and said: "That's right. I heard that Spanish officials who are familiar with the local people and have a certain reputation among the people are selected from among the prisoners of war. You are not asking about Spanish prisoners of war officers. Well, maybe someone will be picked from among the officers to take the blame."
For safety reasons, Qin Huacheng did not specifically mention the names of Francis and his son to others, so even Jin Bo thought he was just asking for relevant information, but did not expect that there was actually a specific target person.But Qin Huacheng himself is open-minded. If there is such a government office as Jin Bo mentioned, then Francis will probably be a very high-ranked candidate.But if it was such a coincidence that the Haihan people chose Francis to be the person in charge of this puppet yamen, then it would be a bit delicate for him to take over the job.
Qin Huacheng knew very well that the Ding family didn't spend money to inquire about the news to rescue Francis and his son. If they really had the chance to do something, they might be ruthless and buy murderers to completely separate the relationship.But if Francis and his son were not given a heavy sentence by Haihan, but instead survived a desperate situation and got a chance to turn around, then the Ding family's trick of jumping up and down would seem superfluous and embarrassing.
Of course, if the Ding family was informed of the news of Francis' comeback in advance, the Ding family would definitely be grateful afterwards, but Haihan pardoned Francis and gave him an official position, which is currently only a theoretical possibility.Jin Bo didn't have any more definite news here, and Qin Huacheng didn't dare to take this puzzling news and go to the Ding family to ask for credit.
"Why is it so difficult to do something?" Qin Huacheng returned home with a little resentment.But when he saw his elder brother Qin Huaming, he suddenly felt that maybe he had overlooked this important source of news.
Qin Huaming's current position is an officer under the Immigration Department of the Haihan Civil Affairs Department. Although it is only a temporary establishment, it is not a small role in Manila at this time.At present, the data registration of Manila residents is almost done through him. It is related to the smooth naturalization of most people in the future. It can be said to be a very important task.However, at this time, ordinary people have not yet realized how much nationality will affect their future lives, so very few people come to Qin Huaming to burn incense. Even his brother Qin Huacheng did not realize how much power he holds in his hands before this.
"Brother, I have something to ask you." Qin Huacheng took the initiative to find Qin Huaming, called him out of the room, and then asked him if he knew that Haihan was going to set up a puppet office to manage Hispanic people recently.
"How did you know this news?" Qin Huaming was a little stunned when he heard the question, but the rhetorical question he asked undoubtedly confirmed Qin Huacheng's answer to this question.
"There is no wall that does not leak in the world." Seeing that the news was indeed true, Qin Huacheng said quite proudly, "How can such a thing be hidden from a well-informed person like me?"
Qin Huaming said disapprovingly: "It's useless if you know, you can't be transferred to that yamen as an errand, so be your security policeman! Although this new yamen is also under the Ministry of Civil Affairs, it's not the same group as ours. people."
Qin Huacheng said: "Brother misunderstood, I don't want to work in that yamen, but want to find out who will be elected to be in charge of this yamen?"
Qin Huaming shook his head and said: "Your elder brother, I am just a small officer. This is a secret that only senior officials of the temporary management committee can grasp. There is no definite information about the candidate."
Qin Huacheng still asked unwillingly: "Then what is the name of this yamen, and when will it be made public? There should be some clues, right?"
Qin Huaming did not doubt that he was there, so he told him frankly: "The name of this yamen is rather long. It is called the 'Manila Regional Hispanic People's Affairs Administration', and the higher-ups call it the 'Western Administration Bureau'. As for when it will be announced, it is estimated to wait for the owner. After the officials are selected."
"Western Administration Bureau?" Qin Huacheng repeated the somewhat awkward name of the yamen softly, and continued to ask: "Then does this yamen have real power?"
"Real power...should be there?" Qin Huaming was not very sure about this, and his tone was a bit hesitant: "The Hispanic people must be managed by the yamen, and the establishment of this organization is probably for this purpose. However, if a Spanish official is appointed as the director of the bureau, it will most likely be used as a puppet to avoid too much resistance from the Hispanic people.”
After listening to these explanations, Qin Huacheng finally had a preliminary understanding of the structure and functions of this yamen.Haihan needs to set up a civil affairs agency to manage the Hispanic people, and then in order to reassure the Hispanic people, he will appoint a Spanish official as the head of this agency, and this lucky person is likely to be from a prisoner of war. A high-ranking Spanish official.Even if it is just a puppet position, for prisoners of war, its significance is no less than rebirth.
But as for who the Haihan people will choose to take this seat, it seems that there will be no definite news until the official announcement, which makes Qin Huacheng feel a little frustrated.Without this crucial information, he will not be able to determine what to do next. Whether or not Francis makes a comeback, the Ding family needs to adopt two diametrically opposed attitudes. If he messes up this matter, the Ding family will not be able to If the correct countermeasures are taken in time, the Ding family will probably pin the blame on him in the end.
Although Qin Huacheng doesn't need to be afraid of the Ding family's power because of his status, he doesn't want to offend this local snake. After all, the Ding family is one of the top rich Han merchant families in the local area. The current low-key is just due to the situation. Tolerable.Qin Huacheng suddenly felt that the money he got from the Ding family was a bit hot, and he secretly regretted that he shouldn't be meddling and talked too much. He readily agreed.
For the current plan, Qin Huacheng can only take one step at a time. If the establishment of the Western Management Bureau by the Haihan people can be announced in the near future, it will be easy to handle. shirk.But if it drags on for ten days and a half months, Ding's family will definitely urge him to take the news to deal with business, so he dare not talk nonsense, otherwise, once the Western Management Bureau announces the candidate for the chief officer one day, it will blow out the cowhide will be exposed immediately.
(End of this chapter)
But Qiu Yuan probably didn't expect that the needs of the Spaniards were not just survival, food and shelter.After solving the most basic survival needs, little Francis proposed to the guards that he hoped to get in touch with his family and at least let him report that the family was safe.
Of course, the family Francis said was not his father who is still under house arrest with him, but his wife Ding Pinger and the old man's family.Since he was arrested, he has not received any news about his family. Of course, he has always been concerned about the family situation, but his wife's family is of Han origin, so he will not be persecuted by the Haihan government.
However, little Francis did not want to believe the conjecture that the father-in-law's family must be trying to separate themselves from them. He believed that his wife's family would not be so ruthless, and would still try to rescue his father and son, but probably couldn't. It's just to get through Haihan's joints.Of course, he still vaguely thought in his heart that people have the nature of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages. If the Ding family does not want to be dragged down by their father and son, it is actually understandable behavior to deliberately keep a distance or even draw a clear line.
But the guard did not dare to agree to little Francis' request at will. Although Qiu Yuan told him to meet the father and son's request as much as possible, he never said that he would allow the father and son to get in touch with the outside world.If any sensitive news gets out, who can take the responsibility?The guards could only record Little Francis' request first, and then submit it when reporting back on the work, and then put it into practice after the temporary management committee gave instructions.
This is the standard procedure for dealing with prisoners of war, and there is nothing wrong with the way the guards do it. It's just that in this way, the period of intrigue with the Ding and Qin families happened to be missed. Probably, he was not so eager to inquire about the news, and was in a hurry to separate himself from Francis and his son.
The choices made by the old man of the Ding family and the second child of the Qin family are difficult to define as right or wrong. They just stood at their own standpoints and made the choice that is most beneficial to them—at least in their own opinion.Ding Feng wanted to get rid of the relationship as soon as possible so that the Ding family would not be implicated by the Spaniards, while Qin Huacheng wanted to take advantage of the Ding family and take a huge sum of money from him. The two parties could reach a cooperation agreement because it was all because of interests. .
But the target of their cooperation, Francis Jr., was completely ignorant of this. For him, since his father had already negotiated with the Haihan people, he should be released soon, and he could be a small official locally in the next two or three years. Even if it's just a puppet acting for the Haihan people, at least it can maintain a stable life for this period of time.After the term of office expires, even if you don't return to China, it shouldn't be too difficult to find another place to stay in the Far East.
As for the feelings of the Ding family, little Francis has not been able to completely change his mentality for a while, and think too much for them. After all, not long ago, the Ding family was just attached to his relatives.Since the marriage of the two families, only the Ding family has ever come to ask for help from their own family. Little Francis basically does not need to consider the Ding family's ideas.Because of this, after the accident, he still insisted that the Ding family would try to rescue his father and son. Subconsciously, he still regarded himself as the backer of the Ding family, but did not realize that he might have become a burden to the Ding family.
In this regard, it is not 01:30 that Francis Jr. is worse than his father in terms of capital and knowledge, but Francis does not intend to criticize his son's thoughts. After all, people always need a little hope to survive in a desperate situation. Since the son If he thinks that someone outside will rescue him, let him think so, it can be regarded as a thought.
However, the idea of playing with little Francis outside is not necessarily to save him. For example, Qin Huacheng, the second son of the Qin family, is still thinking about how to find out the exact location of little Francis and how to get close to him. , exchange information with it, or simply kill it.
At first, Qin Huacheng really wanted to cheat the Ding family's money for establishing relationships, so he quickly stopped doing it, but he soon realized that he thought things a little too simply, and the Ding family didn't plan to pay them all at once. Instead of giving him a huge sum of money, he should use the results of the action as a reference to pay him in installments.In this way, Qin Huacheng couldn't make the money lying down as he had imagined.But he didn't expect the meat in the bowl to fly away again, so he took the initiative to collect information, hoping to get more dry goods that the Ding family would willingly pay for.
I have to say that Qin Huacheng was very lucky. After he invited friends from all walks of life for a few days, someone finally revealed to him a seemingly irrelevant, but interesting news after careful consideration.
The person who gave Qin Huacheng the news was named Jin Bo, who was a friend of Qin Huacheng's since childhood. Although he had a Han Chinese name, half of his blood was actually from the natives of Luzon Island.However, Jin Bo grew up in the circle of Han people, so he is very proficient in Chinese and Chinese characters. Except for his dark complexion, he looks no different from ordinary Han people.
Similar to Qin Huacheng's situation, Jin Bo was also a group of locals who took advantage of the situation after the war and was recruited by the military into the logistics department as a clerk who counted the spoils of war and registered the situation of prisoners of war.If nothing else happens, he will soon be able to obtain Haihan military membership as a civilian soldier. Not only will he be able to obtain land in the northern plains of Manila Bay, but it is also said that he can apply for Haihan nationality earlier than ordinary people.For Jin Bo, who was born as a commoner, this is undoubtedly an opportunity to leap into the dragon's gate.
However, Jin Bo came across a piece of news in his work a few days ago. It happened that Qin Huacheng was desperately inquiring about things related to Spanish prisoners of war in the past two days. Qin Huacheng was informed of the news.
"You said that the Haihan people want to set up a government office for the Spaniards to be officials? Interesting!" Qin Huacheng didn't understand what Jin Bo said at first, but simply thought that this sounded incredible.The Haihan people managed to drive away the original rulers here by means of war, but why did they invite the Spaniards back to serve as officials? Could it be that there is no one in Haihan?
Jin Bo saw that he didn't understand what he said, shook his head and explained: "You don't understand, this yamen is not ordinary, it is specially used to manage the local Spaniards."
"Using barbarians to control barbarians?" Qin Huacheng frowned, as if he had understood the special meaning in the middle: "This is looking for puppets...The officials appointed by the Haihan people may not be ordinary civilians, right?"
This time Jin Bo nodded and said: "That's right. I heard that Spanish officials who are familiar with the local people and have a certain reputation among the people are selected from among the prisoners of war. You are not asking about Spanish prisoners of war officers. Well, maybe someone will be picked from among the officers to take the blame."
For safety reasons, Qin Huacheng did not specifically mention the names of Francis and his son to others, so even Jin Bo thought he was just asking for relevant information, but did not expect that there was actually a specific target person.But Qin Huacheng himself is open-minded. If there is such a government office as Jin Bo mentioned, then Francis will probably be a very high-ranked candidate.But if it was such a coincidence that the Haihan people chose Francis to be the person in charge of this puppet yamen, then it would be a bit delicate for him to take over the job.
Qin Huacheng knew very well that the Ding family didn't spend money to inquire about the news to rescue Francis and his son. If they really had the chance to do something, they might be ruthless and buy murderers to completely separate the relationship.But if Francis and his son were not given a heavy sentence by Haihan, but instead survived a desperate situation and got a chance to turn around, then the Ding family's trick of jumping up and down would seem superfluous and embarrassing.
Of course, if the Ding family was informed of the news of Francis' comeback in advance, the Ding family would definitely be grateful afterwards, but Haihan pardoned Francis and gave him an official position, which is currently only a theoretical possibility.Jin Bo didn't have any more definite news here, and Qin Huacheng didn't dare to take this puzzling news and go to the Ding family to ask for credit.
"Why is it so difficult to do something?" Qin Huacheng returned home with a little resentment.But when he saw his elder brother Qin Huaming, he suddenly felt that maybe he had overlooked this important source of news.
Qin Huaming's current position is an officer under the Immigration Department of the Haihan Civil Affairs Department. Although it is only a temporary establishment, it is not a small role in Manila at this time.At present, the data registration of Manila residents is almost done through him. It is related to the smooth naturalization of most people in the future. It can be said to be a very important task.However, at this time, ordinary people have not yet realized how much nationality will affect their future lives, so very few people come to Qin Huaming to burn incense. Even his brother Qin Huacheng did not realize how much power he holds in his hands before this.
"Brother, I have something to ask you." Qin Huacheng took the initiative to find Qin Huaming, called him out of the room, and then asked him if he knew that Haihan was going to set up a puppet office to manage Hispanic people recently.
"How did you know this news?" Qin Huaming was a little stunned when he heard the question, but the rhetorical question he asked undoubtedly confirmed Qin Huacheng's answer to this question.
"There is no wall that does not leak in the world." Seeing that the news was indeed true, Qin Huacheng said quite proudly, "How can such a thing be hidden from a well-informed person like me?"
Qin Huaming said disapprovingly: "It's useless if you know, you can't be transferred to that yamen as an errand, so be your security policeman! Although this new yamen is also under the Ministry of Civil Affairs, it's not the same group as ours. people."
Qin Huacheng said: "Brother misunderstood, I don't want to work in that yamen, but want to find out who will be elected to be in charge of this yamen?"
Qin Huaming shook his head and said: "Your elder brother, I am just a small officer. This is a secret that only senior officials of the temporary management committee can grasp. There is no definite information about the candidate."
Qin Huacheng still asked unwillingly: "Then what is the name of this yamen, and when will it be made public? There should be some clues, right?"
Qin Huaming did not doubt that he was there, so he told him frankly: "The name of this yamen is rather long. It is called the 'Manila Regional Hispanic People's Affairs Administration', and the higher-ups call it the 'Western Administration Bureau'. As for when it will be announced, it is estimated to wait for the owner. After the officials are selected."
"Western Administration Bureau?" Qin Huacheng repeated the somewhat awkward name of the yamen softly, and continued to ask: "Then does this yamen have real power?"
"Real power...should be there?" Qin Huaming was not very sure about this, and his tone was a bit hesitant: "The Hispanic people must be managed by the yamen, and the establishment of this organization is probably for this purpose. However, if a Spanish official is appointed as the director of the bureau, it will most likely be used as a puppet to avoid too much resistance from the Hispanic people.”
After listening to these explanations, Qin Huacheng finally had a preliminary understanding of the structure and functions of this yamen.Haihan needs to set up a civil affairs agency to manage the Hispanic people, and then in order to reassure the Hispanic people, he will appoint a Spanish official as the head of this agency, and this lucky person is likely to be from a prisoner of war. A high-ranking Spanish official.Even if it is just a puppet position, for prisoners of war, its significance is no less than rebirth.
But as for who the Haihan people will choose to take this seat, it seems that there will be no definite news until the official announcement, which makes Qin Huacheng feel a little frustrated.Without this crucial information, he will not be able to determine what to do next. Whether or not Francis makes a comeback, the Ding family needs to adopt two diametrically opposed attitudes. If he messes up this matter, the Ding family will not be able to If the correct countermeasures are taken in time, the Ding family will probably pin the blame on him in the end.
Although Qin Huacheng doesn't need to be afraid of the Ding family's power because of his status, he doesn't want to offend this local snake. After all, the Ding family is one of the top rich Han merchant families in the local area. The current low-key is just due to the situation. Tolerable.Qin Huacheng suddenly felt that the money he got from the Ding family was a bit hot, and he secretly regretted that he shouldn't be meddling and talked too much. He readily agreed.
For the current plan, Qin Huacheng can only take one step at a time. If the establishment of the Western Management Bureau by the Haihan people can be announced in the near future, it will be easy to handle. shirk.But if it drags on for ten days and a half months, Ding's family will definitely urge him to take the news to deal with business, so he dare not talk nonsense, otherwise, once the Western Management Bureau announces the candidate for the chief officer one day, it will blow out the cowhide will be exposed immediately.
(End of this chapter)